Healthy: Baked Lamb Meatballs

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Lamb is delicious and one of the best uses for ground lamb is to make a delicious Mediterranean-style lamb meatball. They work well as an appetizer or as your main meal for a healthy, protein-rich meal. You can toss them with some vegetables, serve with a yogurt-based sauce, or use some of that excess osso bucco sauce from this recipe with some spaghetti squash or pasta noodles to create an interesting take on the classic spaghetti. This recipe is reasonably fast and refrigerates well so you can make one batch and feast on it for your protein purposes for several other meals. You can make it less healthy, but with a nicer texture, by frying them in a little oil in a pan. However, baked will still make an excellent lamb meatball.

Healthy Baked Lamb Meatball Recipe

Servings: 12 meatballs
Prep time: 40 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes

Equipment:

• Oven
• Kitchen utensils
• Knife and cutting board
• Baking sheet
• Mixing bowl

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. ground lamb
• 2-3 scallions
• 1/2 tsp cinnamin
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp allspice
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1 egg
• Cooking spray

Directions:

1. Preheat oven at 375F.
2. Chop scallions.
3. Beat egg in mixing bowl. Add all ingredients except cooking spray to mixing bowl. Mix well until it has a uniform consistency.
4. Refrigerate mixture for 20 minutes.
5. Spray baking sheet surface with cooking spray.
6. Using your hands, roll the mixture into 12 meatballs and place on baking sheet. You may find it easier to take the mixture out of the bowl and cut it in half and keep cutting portions in half until you have 12 equal blobs of meat. Then roll each one into a meatball. It's messy but ensures even size.
7. Bake for 20 minutes in oven. 

Enjoy!